Bodywork

Finally after hours of work I have managed ,to get the profile correct .Now to spray it along with the N/S of the car .All emishes have been removed,so one more step Len

Well done Len. You have done some very careful reshaping there. Can't wait to see the painted result

Morning,I thought it was ready for spraying,but running your fingers over the area,you can feel slight ridges .So another skimming of filler and more flatting When a light is held at an angle to the area filled its possible to see the slight undulations .If they are not done on prep.then they will show up with gloss coat  The point is as well I bought the MG to have project to do so how long it takes doesn`t matter Len .

It can be painstaking but well worth it as the quality of the end result of the other paintwork you have done goes to prove

Hello three coats of filler primer and a quick rub down ,with 800 and it looks quite good However its not until you spray the gloss on it as to whether its good or not .But cross fingers and see. I sprayed all of the N/S while I was at it ,after hours of flatting . Len

Seeing your success with this Len is making me more confident to tackle the paint on my MGB project car.

Morning I went to a car restoration show some years ago,there was a stand there from a college ,that taught paint spraying.The man on the stand said the biggest mistake people make when they first start spraying , is not to go over the panels once,but to go over it a couple of times .So making the paint run,even now I have to hold myself back from spraying an area a couple of times .Just go over the panel once,making sure you overlap the spray lines .The other fault which all beginners make is not to give the coats time to dry off ,he said actual time yourself giving at least 5-10 minutes between coats.It was when I looked at my watch I realised I wasn`t giving it time  Show another photo when I give it the final coats.yet again the masking coat from a spray can of silver has shown some defects  Len

Given the MG two coats of base coat silver,but ran  out of thinners So will lightly flat paint with 2000 wet and dry and give final coat Len

Morning N/S is ready for final coat of paint ,but had a day off yesterday as it was my birthday 4 score years and 6 Len

Many happy returns for yesterday Len. That cant be right though, I'd have placed you at 10 years younger.

Four score years & six, Len’s just getting the revs up, when it’s four score & ten + , then your motoring. I’m rebuilding a pair of four pot AP’s for a friend & I’ve been making stainless pins as the originals are rubbish. Stood up at my lathe all afternoon & that’s after having taken the looong route to the opticians with the blueish sky being the overhead limit. No change from last time so no new glasses to break.
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The original standard mild steel pins in the AP's are definitely a weak point for maintenance as they rust weld themselves in place, especially at the end that is an interference fit. Stainless ones avoid that completely. I went the route of using the Mike Satur designed stainless pins that use cotter pins at both ends so avoid the need for an interference fit but they did need a small modification to the caliper to fit. They happened to come up first in a search, otherwise I would have gone for a stainless version of the standard interference fit pins .